The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-07

| day last and Burwcll was required TO give
bond in the sum of 500 for his appearances
at the next session of our Superior Court.
Judge Wellborn, of Gainesville, has an
| old Spanish coin that was found in the
| Coosa gold mine, five miles southeast of
Blairsville, fifteen or twenty feet beneath
| the surface Il is of copper and somewhat
| larger than an old-faShioned copper cent.
From attr1tion most of the coat of arms,
lettering, date, etc, have been almost worn
away, but enough is left that under a glass
| shows it to be a coin of the early part of the
sixteenth century or earlier, and was proba-
bly, brought here by DeSoto. This is con
sidered a strong link in the testimony going
to show that DeSoto and his band of adveIl-
turers passed through that part of North
Georgia and worked these mines for gold,
or that some of the Indians with whom they
had intercourse in some other part of the
South lost it there while searching for
gold.
A serious accident happened to Sam Butts,
negro well-digger at McCombs Mount.
near Milledgeville, Thursday. Butts was
cleaning out q well for Mr. McCombs, when
suddenly he was covered by fifteen feet of
dirt, rocks and planks, but at last accounts
was not hurt. The well was curbed OH the
inside by plank running from top to bottom.
1t is thought that Butts loosened the curbing
at the bottom of the well caus-
ing it to cave. The weight of
rocks, dirt, etc, closed the top CURLING
together, leaving Butts in hollow in the
bottom of the well standing in deep water
and under fifteen feet of dirt and rocks.
The last report says that Butts can be heard
praying for help. Work to rescue him from
his perilous condition was going on, but the
job was a risky one and Butts may have
smothered to death or drowned before he
was reached. He was suffering horrible
agonies at last accounts. Some of the rocks
may have struck him while falling.
There is in Augusta at present, on visit,
Mormon preacher, Joseph Murphey by
name. He is an old resident of Augusta
He is about IS years of age, and states that
ne, with party of thirteen supporters, of
Foster Blodgett, who were ostraciZed in
those trying days for supporting Blodgett
and his clan, emigrated to Utah. Mr.. Muir
phey is stopping with his old friend, Mr.
Farr He says he never had more than
two wives at any one time. Mr.. Muir
phey will be in Augusta for a week
or more. He left Augusta in 1869 with his
father, the party numbering thirteen per-
sons Only two of the original party of
thirteen have died, and the colony now con
sists of nearly ninety souls. Mr.. Murphey
in Augusta worked at the plumbers trade
with Mr.. Robbie. He was known here in
former times as Joe James. DR.. James, his
father, was a Mormon. Brigham Young,
it is said, helped the emigrants TO pay rail
road expenses, and otherwise aided them.
Augusta Erebing Nel0s:: The Augusta and
Summerville Street Railroad Company has
just launched out on new policy, which
will be put into practice June l. What the
people will think of it remains to be seen,
but it appears that the policy has been
adopted to influence public opinion in gen.
eral, but more particularly the verdicts of
| petit juries in damage suits against the com
pany The policy, as interpreted by its
| friends, is meant to show that corporations
at least have bodies, in contradistinction to
the old no soul theory, and the effort sought
| to be produced is Il 10 the many verdicts
which 1uries are generally so willing to rem
| der against ''soulless corporations" will in
| future be deducted out of the wages and sal
| aries of employees. This is regarded as
| pretty rough on employees, and the success
and fairness of the policy are doubted by
many, but it has been announced that from
| June | the wages and salaries of all en-
ployes of the company will be reduced Il
per cent for the next eighteen months. Thi!
will be done to even up the companys re
cent compromise verdict in the courts, il
which it had TO pay damages The loss viii
thus fall on the employees instead of th'
company, and it is given out that this policy
will be followed in all similar cases in fu
| ture.
Albany NetoS and Advertiser. From 6
gentleman who returned from Morgan, Cal
houn county, the NeioS and Advertise,
learned the horrible details of a we'll defined
case of hydrophobia that developed on w
w. Rocks, a young farmer of that county
Mr.. Rocks has been only two months mar
ried, and his young grief stricken wife il
nearly distracted with fearful apprehen
sions. On March 81 strange dog cam,
into the yard on Mr.. Rocks farm, and be
fore he was awITe of it the dog, which
proved to be mad, had fastened
his fangs in Mr.. Rocks flesh Chok
ia him off, he took an axe ant
cut the dogs head off. On last Mon
day May ?, he began to develop hydropho
bic symptoms, at the sight of water under
going violent physical suffering, and Oh
Tuesday the case was fully and awfully de
fined. Every symptom of rabies appeared il
their most distressing shape; the loving hus
band of two months, attacked, with tn
fury of a wolf, his distressed wife, attemptin,
to bite her like a dog. 1t required fou
stout men to control him, and his heart
broken wife had to be forcibly removes
from dangerous proximity to him whom sh
loved better than her life. No hopes ar
entertained for Mr.. Rocks recovery, and j
is possible that he may now be dead.